[hr][hr][h1][b][i][color=gold][center]Heidi Williams[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h1]
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[center][b][color=gold]Location:[/color][/b] Danger Room
[b][color=gold]Mentions:[/color][/b]  [@Fallenreaper][/center]

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Heidi had her suspicions. She had counted it as one of the possibilities that they weren't called here to clean. While it did make sense to deal out punishment, there was something about the announcement's mention of a 'new group of X-men' that made Heidi wonder if the punishment was a ruse to get everyone who had been involved in last night's events to the Danger Room. That is the reason why she had decided to insist Cleo and Veronica come here instead of humoring Cleo's plan to skip the punishment. There was a risk they would miss something important.

She watched intently as Ashford gave his address. She didn't need to wonder why she was here. This was, at the end of the day, still a school. Heidi was here to learn. Not just from the classes and the exercises, but from observing the school itself. And from the other students around her. Everything she had seen only bolstered her own beliefs. This was the level of control, comfort and happiness Mutantkind can achieve where there is space to experiment, and teachers to guide them in the use of their powers. They are kept safe from enemies and everyone around them knows what they're going through. Every mutant needed these things for a healthy, happy life, as much as every human needed education and a social circle.

Before she knew it, the address was over and the professors had left them to their own devices. Drake's outburst went entirely unnoticed by her, as she was standing in front of him so didn't hear or see any kind of scream. The first she noticed of her classmates besides Aya going to the professors to talk about something, was Ronnie, who was standing besides her, turning to look back at something. Heidi also turned back in time to see him muttering something about killing a spider with fire. Heidi saw no scorch marks, ash, or other residue at his feet, so he was lying about that. So why had Ronnie turned round? He must have suddenly made a loud noise of some kind, and was trying to play it off.

Heidi turned back to Ronnie when she spoke.

[color=gold]"I'm not even sure what just happened, but I haven't been here very long and nothing's seemed that out of the ordinary today. In fact, we were called here because something very unsettling and unusual did happen last night, and you're lucky you weren't there."[/color]